If the Whole World was Watching (L.S.)

Chapter 16 (Harry)

After Louis and the girls left, Harry's mother came up to his room because she wanted to have a chat with him.

"Harry?" Anne said while knocking on his door.

"Yes mum? You can come in," Harry replied.

Anne opened the door and walked over to Harry's bed, where he was laying down and doing homework.

"So, you and Louis seem to be happy," Anne started with a soft smile.

Harry blushed, "Yeah, we are."

"Aw, I love to see my favorite son so happy! I'm so glad Louis is treating you well," Anne grinned.

"First of all, I'm your only son. Second of all, of course he's treating me well, he's Louis!" Harry exclaimed with a cute smile.

Anne just looked at him and smiled, "Well, I'm glad. Just don't take things too fast, ok?"

Harry rolled his eyes, "Of course not mum."

"Great," Anne smiled, "I'll leave you to your homework then."

"Bye mum," Harry said.

Harry continued his homework, and he was just finishing up when he heard the familiar ding of his phone.

Loubear 🐻: Hiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiii 

Harry: hiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiii

Loubear 🐻: how's my favourite person in the whole wide world doing?

Harry: you love me more than your sisters? how rude

Loubear 🐻: i just told u that ur my fav person and ur calling me rude? 🥺

Harry: sorry 🥺

Loubear 🐻: it's ok :)

Loubear 🐻: now seriously, how are you?

Harry: goooooooooooooooooood

Loubear 🐻: that's rlly gooooooooooooooooooooooood

Harry: ikr :)

They got caught up in texting each other all night, losing track of time as their conversation stretched into the early hours of the morning. Harry finally had to call it a night if he wanted to be able to get up for school. Louis was obviously disappointed but he understood.

Harry had a bit of a struggle trying to get himself awake the next morning as he kept wanting to fall back asleep again but he managed to get himself up and about. He got a good morning text from Louis and that's when he finally started to go about his day because he got charged up on happiness. 

When Harry got to school, he was almost immediately greeted by Louis' gorgeous face and smile. 

"Hi love," Louis greeted with a small kiss.

"Hi," Harry smiled.

"Ok you two lovebirds," Niall smiled, "as much as I love being able to get this much Larry content, I would appreciate you two not making me feel as single as I am."

"Sorry Niall," Harry apologized.

"It's ok, I was just playing," Niall chuckled.

"Hey, where's Zayn and Liam?" Louis asked while looking around.

"I don't know mate, I haven't seen them at all. We'll probably run into them eventually," Niall said, "Right now the bell's about to ring so I gotta get to class and I suggest that you do too."

"Right," Harry agreed.

"Wait Harry I'll walk with you since, you know, we have the same class," Louis said.

Harry put his hand to his chest in mock offense, "Not because we're boyfriends?"

"Yeah, yeah, because of that too! I just meant-" Louis was cut off by Harry's laughing.

"Calm down Lou, I was just playing," Harry laughed. Louis laughed along with him.

As they were walking into class, Harry knew that they wouldn't be able to focus much as they sat right next to each other. His suspicions proved right as they spent the whole class passing notes or kicking each other under the table.

When the exited the classroom, Harry and Louis were giggling to themselves. Harry, still feeling like he's in his honeymoon phase with Louis, wasn't ready to part with him for their next classes. He survived through the next two classes and made it to lunch to be able to see Louis for another whole hour! 

"Hey love," Louis greeted Harry in a whisper. Harry understood that Louis still wasn't ready to come out yet. He didn't blame him, either, because his parents have instilled the idea in him that being gay is wrong. His heart hurts for Louis and the pain he's had to suffer over the years, but he only wants to make his life easier from here on out even though Louis going behind his parents' backs to date Harry probably wasn't the most ideal situation for him. Harry didn't want to make Louis' life even harder by pressuring him to come out, and besides he doesn't need to share everything about his life with the whole school full of people he doesn't even know. He's perfectly content the way it is right now. Sure, he would like to show affection in the hallways when they're together but that's a small price to pay for Louis' smile and happiness.

"What are you thinking about?" Louis asked him as Harry snapped back into reality. 

Harry smirked, "I was thinking about you Lou, it's always you." 

Louis gave him a soft smile at that and he took his hand under the table and squeezed it. Harry knew that squeeze meant that Louis just wanted to hug him and kiss him until his heart has filled with love. Harry entwined their fingers and hoped that it relayed that Harry was perfectly fine the way it is. Judging by Louis' grin, Harry figured it had. 

a/n: ...sooo this break was longer than expected and ik the ending was kinda abrupt but... it's ok! bc.. yea! but anyways i won't be updating any other books until friday probably bc im in a bunch of summer courses that i did not know about when i had told y'all that i would be updating soon so that's what took me so long lmao. that's not an excuse that's just an explanation. hope y'all enjoyed this chapter! (my writing is a little rusty so i don't blame y'all if you hate it!)